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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Ps2pdf: Unrecoverable error Post 303002989 by ADHVADARZIN on Wednesday 6th of September 2017 09:25:10 AM
Old 09-06-2017
Hi Andrew,

Output for gs RFLABEL30.ps is pasted below. Gets message "display device is not defined". But display device is defined as pdfwrite in ps2pdf script in /usr/local/bin. I tried to export the sDEVICE=pdfwrite. But didn't work.

Code:
 18 /home/mbsysop/ghostscript-7.05/lib>gs RFLABEL30.ps
GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (2002-04-22)
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Cannot open X display `(null)'.
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.

Output for gs --help

Code:
 
  
 GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (2002-04-22)
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
 -dNOPAUSE           no pause after page   | -q       `quiet', fewer messages
 -g<width>x<height>  page size in pixels   | -r<res>  pixels/inch resolution
 -sDEVICE=<devname>  select device         | -dBATCH  exit after last file
 -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
                                         embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF
Available devices:
   x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11gray4 x11mono bmpmono bmpgray bmpsep1
   bmpsep8 bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m bmp32b deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus
   ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 ljet4d lj5mono lj5gray cdeskjet cdjcolor
   cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 uniprint ijs bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800
   faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pcxcmyk pbm
   pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw pkm pkmraw pksm
   pksmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc
   tiff24nc psmono psgray psrgb bit bitrgb bitcmyk png16m pnggray pngmono
   png256 png16 jpeg jpeggray pdfwrite pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor
   cljet5 cljet5c nullpage
Search path:
   . : /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib :
   /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
For more information, see /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.05/doc/Use.htm.
Report bugs to bug-gs@ghostscript.com, using the form in Bug-form.htm.

gs_init.ps is available in the search path
Code:
 /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib

Does this have something to do with
Code:
 /dev/tty

as shown in the error message?

Also, can you please tell me what you meant by "Make sure the path you had, /home/mbsysop/ghostscript-7.05/lib, is in that path"

The search path /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.05 does not have all the subdirectories as in the path /home/mbsysop/ghostscript-7.05. Is this an issue ?

Code:
  
 6 /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.05>ll
total 16
drwxrwxrwx   2 root       sys           2048 Sep  3 12:52 doc
drwxrwxrwx   3 root       sys           1024 Sep  3 12:52 examples
drwxrwxrwx   2 root       sys           5120 Sep  6 15:00 lib

Last edited by ADHVADARZIN; 09-06-2017 at 11:11 AM..
 

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